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Goodstart Early Learning Jindalee

Locality: Jindalee

Phone: +61 1800 222 543

Address: 100 Burrendah Road 4074 Jindalee, QLD, Australia

Website: www.goodstart.org.au/centres/jindalee

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25.01.2022 Look at our sunflowers! They are growing more and more each day and the children are loving watching them grow

24.01.2022 Happy Fathers Day! This week we are treating our Dads and Grandads with some special treats. Although we couldnt hold our annual Fathers Day concert this year, we still wanted to ensure that we acknowledged this important day so please stop by for a quick photo and grab a snack during drop off or pick up time. Enjoy. x

24.01.2022 We are having a yummy sausage dish with pasta for lunch today! Our centre chef, RJ, cooks delicious, nutritious meals for our children to enjoy every day. Individual dietary requirements are also catered for.

23.01.2022 Have you met Amanda? Amanda is the Assistant Director at Goodstart Jindalee. She supports our Centre Director, Maureen, in the overall leadership of the centre. Amanda has been working at the centre for the past 19 years. Amanda holds an Advanced Diploma in childrens services.

23.01.2022 National Simultaneous Storytime On Tuesday of this week the children tuned in to a virtual Storytime. National Simultaneous Storytime is an annual event and every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. ... To participate in this day we were asked to tune into the virtual Storytime at exactly 11am. The story was Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas. The aim of this storytime is to: - promote the value of reading and literacy - promote the value and fun of books - promote an Australian writer and publisher This was a fun and different way for the children to view a story. In the afternoon, a discussion about the story brought much excitement, with many children excited to ask their older siblings whether they also watched the same story too!

22.01.2022 An exciting job opportunity has come up within our Goodstart Team. If you are interested please apply by visiting the following link. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our Goodstart Jindalee family! https://career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer

22.01.2022 This Friday, 17th July, is National Pyjama day. We invite all of our children and Erucators to come to daycare dressed in their favourite pjs! Please bring along a gold coin donation to raise funds for children in foster care.

22.01.2022 We are continuing to ensure the health and safety of our children, families and educators during this difficult time. We have set up our Health and Wellbeing Station in our entrance, located just inside the gate to enter before entering in through our front door. Please be sure to sanitise your hands before entering our centre and once again as you leave. Masks have been provided for your use if you to choose to wear them during drop off and pick up times. Hand sanitisers... are also located at our sign in and out kiosks for use. We have two kiosks available for your use to sign your children in and out, one located on our office bench and a second located in the corner next to our fish tank. As per all health directives, it is important that if you or your child is feeling unwell or showing any flu like symptoms, please stay home and please provide us with a clearance before returning. As previously advised, we ask that only one parent or caregiver is allowed in the centre at any given time. We also ask that siblings please remain in our office area. Thank you for your understanding and working together with us over this time.

22.01.2022 All set up and ready to welcome our children and families this morning... Our outdoor program reflects our individual room programs to include follow on experiences from our daily/weekly evaluations, child interests and follow ons from observations. Todays planned experiences included 'mini olympics' hurdles, easel painting, and a 'washing the dishes' experience!

19.01.2022 Happy Early Childhood Educators Day to all of our amazing Educators at Goodstart Jindalee

19.01.2022 Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.~ O. Fred Donaldson

18.01.2022 Here's a short video from our National Safe Work and Wellbeing Manager around how to correctly put on/wear a face mask. This is something we recently shared with our centres in VIC and thought it may be helpful for some of our families as well. https://youtu.be/HlNkWN58TyE

18.01.2022 Our outdoor play space consists of many play spaces that are enriched in allowing the children to explore their natural environment and make use of natural resources in their play.

17.01.2022 Have you met Tana? Tana is one of our Senior Toddler room Educators and has been working at Goodstart Jindalee for the past year. Tana works with her Lead Educator, Sherri, to provide quality program and practice in the Senior Toddler room. Tana holds a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care.

16.01.2022 Last week we celebrated science week throughout our centre. Kindergarten 1 explored colour changing using fresh celery, flowers and colour powder. The three primary colours were used and the children had so much fun pouring, stirring ,adding and cutting with safe knives. The children have been so curious to see the flowers and celery slowly turning into the colours of the water. ... What great teamwork!

16.01.2022 Lots of fun was had in the mud pit this morning! A small group of children worked together, using their own imaginations and creativity.

15.01.2022 National Science week runs from Saturday 15th August through to 23rd August. Throughout our centre the children will have the opportunity to be involved in different types of science and technology experiences. Find out more by clicking the below link. https://www.scienceweek.net.au/faq/

15.01.2022 A great real life learning experience for the children to grow, care for, harvest, prepare, cook and taste our fresh sweet corn.

15.01.2022 Look at our sunflowers!! They have grown so well and are looking so beautiful

15.01.2022 To UNDERSTAND is to INVENT. ~ Jean Piaget

14.01.2022 Look at what we have noticed! Our blueberry plant has lots of blueberries on it. The Senior toddler children have been observing them and watching them each day as they ripen. Yesterday we noticed that there were many ripe blueberries. We picked our own blueberries and then used them to make some blueberry muffins!

14.01.2022 Along with pollinating our sunflowers to produce seeds, we have been talking about how the bee's collect pollen and nectar to take back to their hive. Can you see the orange pollen stuck to her legs? What a great opportunity to introduce some learning around these important little creatures.

14.01.2022 Look what we discovered in our centre garden today! Our blueberries are on the way!

13.01.2022 Fruit and cheese platters and apple tea cake ready for todays afternoon tea. Yum!

12.01.2022 Different invitations to play are set up in our outdoor play space this morning to explore NAIDOC week. NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal amd Torres Straight Island people. https://www.naidoc.org.au

10.01.2022 Last week we had a wonderful time enjoying different enquiry based experiences to celebrate science week. Check out what the senior toddler room enjoyed...

10.01.2022 The Theory of Loose Parts... Whether it be old cardboard boxes, wooden pallets, pieces of wood, old tyres, bits of rope or string, kids will use their imagination and ingenuity to make something. ~ Simon Nicholson

09.01.2022 National reconciliation week was celebrated last week throughout our centre through arts and craft experiences, songs, instruments, books, reading, and observation. Our toddler room explored the indigenous culture by observing indigenous symbols on the easel board and providing sticks for exploration with some sand. Conversations were facilitated by the Educators about what they could see and what they could create/draw in the sand.

08.01.2022 Today our Nursery children explored a hairdressing set up, equipped with hair dryers, colour selections, colour brushes and palettes, shampoo and hair wigs! Such a great experience to broaden their understanding of the world in which we live and use real life props in their play.

07.01.2022 Our caring and thoughtful Kindergarten children picked some of their sunflowers which they have been growing, made some message tags and delivered one to each room today, as a way of acknowledging RU Ok Day. How sweet :)

06.01.2022 Exploration of light and shadows are being observed in our Kindergarten 2 room. The children were encouraged to share their own thoughts and ideas. Visual learning has been displayed in the space for the children to revisit their learning. It has been a great opportunity for the children to explore uses of technology.

06.01.2022 Our Kindergarten children have recently transplanted some seedling from a pot into our prepared garden bed in the playground for the children to watch, grow and develop through the life cycle. Information has been added to the outdoor space to prompt questions, discussions and discoveries throughout this real life learning experience. Information on the fence offers the opportunity for parents to also engage with the updates with their children. Our Kindergarten children created our wonderful Sunflowers sign. They also explored their own creativities and imaginations to create some amazing paintings and drawings of the sunflowers.

05.01.2022 Our Educators were spoilt with a lovely morning tea on Monday thanks to our centre cook RJ. Thank you RJ it was delicious!

05.01.2022 At Goodstart Jindalee we love using natural resources from our gardens...

04.01.2022 The child begins to perceive the world not only through his eyes but also through his speech. ~ Lev Vygotsky Some of the children in Kindergarten choose to express their own ideas about their colour changing experience with the flowers and celery through drawing. They used verbal language to talk about their creations.

03.01.2022 Every second Friday we are lucky enough to have Kristle Skennar play her guitar and sing some songs for our Kindergarten children. The children have been embracing the shared sing a long times, joining in with the songs. You can find Kristle on Facebook at /kristleskennar if you would like to find out more about what she offers.

01.01.2022 Hi Goodstart families! As you know the Government announced today that the 'free childcare' package will expire on 12 July and that the CCS system will return f...rom 13 July, along with new transition measures (up until October) to support the sector and parents as they move back to the subsidy. This announcement is a little bit complex so we are working hard to understand what this means for our families and for Goodstart. We will provide an update to our centres and our families later today and over the coming days as we learn more. #5weekstogo! See more

01.01.2022 Have you met Tania? Tania is our Nursery room Lead Educator and has been working at Goodstart Jindalee for the past year and a half. Tania works with her assistant Joy to deliver quality education program and practice within the Nursery room. Tania holds a Diploma of Early childhood education and care.

01.01.2022 Up, up, and away!! After much interest in space play ideas, reading space books, and sharing factual discussions In our Kindergarten 1 room over the past month, aspects of space were explored further. Group time discussions lead to making a space station area. ... The childrens ideas were recorded and the designing and creating lead from there. The children worked together creating a rocket and paper mache planets. Thank you to one of our families who brought in some electronic components for us to explore.